“With its entrance into the canon we are jolted awake,” the Oxford American declares of the collection. 

Brown talks to the Michigan radio station about which book he rereads "again and again" and how "making use of identity" helped him find his poetic voice. 

On EspnW, Glock talks to transgender activists and icons Jennifer Finney Boylan & Kate Bornstein about reality television and why gender is "boring."

Keene discusses critiques of MFA programs and the act of “queering narratives.”

On BuzzFeed, Brown’s poem responds to police brutality in America.

On FSG’s Work in Progress blog, Phillips responds to Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet and explores why he believes that “writing poetry well, over time, is the residue of what you have read and lived and thought.”

Kirkus Reviews dubs Whitehead’s novel about one girl’s attempt to escape slavery “razor sharp” and declares that Whitehead is “assuredly a writer of the first rank.”

On Public Radio International, Vuong discusses the meaning of time and why he hopes that, in his poetry about the immigrant experience, Americans will "see themselves."

Donovan discusses embracing “tumbling down a rabbit hole” in his work and writing essays as a poet.

On the new episode of Talkshop, Lewis Robinson and fellow writer Justin Tussing discuss bad concerts and America's obsession with celebrity.